Joan of Arc

1412 – 1431

The teenage peasant girl who rallied French forces against the English at Orléans is convicted of heresy by a pro-English tribunal and burned alive at 19. Re…

• 1431 CE

  Joan of Arc burned at the stake

  The teenage peasant girl who rallied French forces against the English at Orléans is convicted of heresy by a pro-English tribunal and burned alive at 19. Rehabilitated posthumously in 1456, she becomes France's patron saint and an enduring symbol of courage, faith, and resistance.